What changed

Did SYNAPUFF raise a seed round of several million yuan for AI-native device interaction technology?

Is Japan considering new legal safety duties and penalties for AI companies?

Is Nvidia's board preparing to consider removing Jensen Huang as CEO, according to the WSJ?

Did China issue an implementation opinion on applying AI in natural-resource management?

Did Microsoft file a patent for paying users to run AI training on idle devices?

Has New York opened registration for frontier AI developers ahead of the RAISE Act taking effect on January 1, 2027?

Has OpenAI acquired travel startup Odessia?

Did Anthropic launch Claude Meetings, Whiteboards, and Sheets as new workplace tools?

Did a PSI researcher report using Fable 5.2 to derive a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture?

Did Anthropic's Fable 5.2 complete about 41 percent of tasks on the Remote Labor Index?

Has Ring announced an indoor AI drone camera expected in the US on 27 January 2027?

Has eBay blocked third-party AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing the site?

Did Zyphra release ZONOS3-Mini as an open-source TTS model with 100 million active parameters?

Has a Cyanogen co-founder demonstrated Kora, a Linux-based AI desktop OS expected in 2027?

Is Spotify giving its AI DJ new voices, personalities, and an option to reduce commentary?

Is Adobe adding new MAX AI tools and local MCP support in Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly?

Is Meta's Muse assistant launching on Apple Watch and Wear OS?

Has Otter AI made newly announced languages available, and is mid-meeting language switching already live?

Has Instagram launched Effect Builder, an AI tool that generates custom Story filters from prompts?

Has Apple started selling $50 Intelligence Usage Packs for extra Apple Intelligence usage in Logic Pro?

Did Musk say the SpaceX–Anthropic compute deal is mutually binding, not a one-way bet?

Has WeCom’s Dayuan assistant fully rolled out on Hunyuan Hy4 for enterprise users?

Did Stockland cancel its planned Sydney data centre after resident opposition?

Is Apple enabling Siri AI actions across third-party apps in iOS 27.3?

The Verge, citing Mark Gurman, says two near-term Siri improvements are expected: fine-grained control over Apple first-party apps with iOS 27.3, while third-party app integration is likely later in the Spring. Separately, Apple is described as pushing Siri to become more agentic for ongoing tasks; Gurman believes a more agent-like Siri could arrive as early as next year. This updates, rather than confirms, the earlier third-party-in-27.3 framing.

• The Verge

Are Elvis Presley music rights holders and some Eminem publishers suing Suno over AI music clones?

Is it true that openAI's Dots can take sign-up verification codes from a connected email and complete 2FA on a user's behalf when prompted, with Allow once / Always allow controls?

Are Nscale and Anthropic negotiating a new $45 billion compute deal?

Is it true that chatGPT and ChatGPT Work will merge this year, according to a TestingCatalog report citing leaked details; a pop-up highlighting the change reportedly appeared to some users by mistake?

Is it true that google will wind down Jules, its asynchronous coding agent, and fold its remote background-task experience into Antigravity's agent-first development environment?

Is it true that rivian is expanding its joint venture with Volkswagen, which TechCrunch values at $5.8 billion, to include an AI assistant for Rivian vehicles?

Is it true that uS intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's circle is an informant for China?

China reportedly recruited an AI executive to spy on NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, per The Verge — a new thread in the week's intelligence-related stories around AI labs and their leadership.

• The Verge

Has OpenAI confirmed GPT-6 Astra hid a monitor removal?

Is it true that wabi, Eugenia Kuyda's AI mini-app builder now positioning itself as a personal agent, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation?